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Flyin Ryan

We need one company to run Super Rugby that is independent from the national unions. Probably, but the unions wouldn't be keen on giving up the power. I see this like Neighorn does of playing in negotiations. If they did leave, I see NZRU setting up something with Japan maybe. Japan would take it a...

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Major League Soccer yesterday got a 10-year deal with Apple TV for $250 million per year where every single MLS game in English and Spanish will only air on Apple TV. Nationally televised MLS games get around a 0.2 on cable and a 0.35 on broadcast networks (for non-American readers, that's not much)...

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We have full employment and massive shortages in staffing levels. Economy has been overheating for a while now with free cheap money being pumped in from all angles. Higher interest rates are not generally good for anyone . It's why lower rates are used as a stimulus. Conversely if the economy coul...

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Primaries tonight in South Carolina, Maine, North Dakota, and Nevada. In S.C., the first Republican Congressman to vote for Trump's impeachment up for re-election, Rep. Tom Rice, has lost quite handily 51-25. Another Republican Rep. in S.C. that was critical of Trump but did not vote to impeach him ...

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Given that sexual infidelities of past POTUSes has been entered into evidence, the following tweet had me chuckling... Everyone is making a big deal out of trump paying Kim Guilfoyle $60K for 3 minutes, when he paid Stormy Daniels $130K for less than one. So Trump was either detached from reality a...

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Uber costs are going up because there business plan has failed and they've run out of funding to subsidise the rides. Their business plan had an assumption that self driving cars would be starting to become mainstream by now and they wouldn't have to pay drivers at all. Uber's business plan to me w...

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I definitely think PR has positively contributed to my life , but not in gambling really. Well that's better than most. :lol: I had Sherry fitz on the phone the week I was talking down the price of a property and they told me that their economist is predicting prices to hold strong for the rest of ...

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Uber costs are going up because there business plan has failed and they've run out of funding to subsidise the rides. Their business plan had an assumption that self driving cars would be starting to become mainstream by now and they wouldn't have to pay drivers at all. Uber's business plan to me w...

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Haven't read the article as I'm out of freebies but this has been coming for a few years. Eventually the VCs would want their money back. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FVIkCm6WAAQ0kvl?format=png&name=small https://twitter.com/DKThomp/status/1536328770134720512?s=20&t=9Q4_dIszSer8GikFyqKHlQ Is it true...

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Another weird law is you can’t have a quick line out if anyone touches the ball after it went out. And really that means anyone. If it bounces off a camera man’s knee or a ball boy … no more quick line out allowed. I can understand why that is a law though. It stops a bench player/water carrier/hea...

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Here's one from kicking conversions: -if the player has not started his run-up and the ball falls off the tee, player is allowed to place it back on tee or have a teammate hold -if the player has started his run-up and the ball falls off the tee, player is not allowed to place it back on tee, he has...

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Yeah, no power dynamics at play. I’m guessing the whole me too thing passed you by. And was 22 meant to actually mean something ? Eugh Indiana state law got changed a few years ago to make even a consensual relationship between a secretary and her boss sexual harassment due to power dynamics (I thi...

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A 22 year old intern. Consensually. But that really isn’t really the point. Yeah, no power dynamics at play. I’m guessing the whole me too thing passed you by. And was 22 meant to actually mean something ? Eugh Indiana state law got changed a few years ago to make even a consensual relationship bet...

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https://www.reddit.com/r/MLRugby/comments/v9j46p/mlr_update_re_disqualifications/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf Slightly more info than was previously released from those weaselly incompetents. Yes, I am still angry. I get that the league is probably going to have a court case...

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Let's consider a couple things that I'm sure are arguable and can be throwing a grenade to some but are mostly true: -on the international stage, South Africa has routinely demonstrated they are almost always better at the game of rugby than the likes of Ireland, Wales, Scotland, and Italy -it follo...

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It's going to be very hot. 22 C is "very hot", really? A lot of these countries' players are going to die here in 9 years. Wasn't it USA 94 where the ROI team management were throwing water balloons onto the field for their players? One game was played in Dallas middle of day and believe by the end...

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OomStruisbaai wrote: ↑Fri Jun 10, 2022 3:28 pm It's going to be very hot.

22 C is "very hot", really?

A lot of these countries' players are going to die here in 9 years.

Flyin Ryan

we see situations where the ball carrier is tackled/grounded and is on the ground with the ball an opponent arrives and grasps the ball by dint of having an arm on either side of him - essentially grabbing hold of the tackled player and pulling the ball up against his body we see penalties against ...

Flyin Ryan

- The jackler has the RIGHT to go for the ball. - YES - The tackled player has the OBLIGATION to release when a player on his feet (the jackler) arrives. YES - If the (legal) jackler's actions prevent the tackled player from fulfilling his obligation, it is the latter who is on the wrong and the PK...

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Puma: - If the (legal) jackler's actions prevent the tackled player from fulfilling his obligation, it is the latter who is on the wrong and the PK is rightly on him. YES - THIS IS WHAT I AM TALKING ABOUT - IF HE HAS ARMS AROUND THE TACKLED PLAYER AND IS PULLING THE BALL AGAINST THE TACKLED PLAYER ...

Flyin Ryan

Flyin Ryan - i think you misunderstand me. i am talking about situations where the ball-carrier ends up on the ground with the ball and the jackler stands over him gets hold of the ball by essentially embracing him and pulling the ball up. he ends up pulling the ball-carrier up as he picks up the b...

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camroc1 wrote: ↑Fri Jun 10, 2022 12:15 pmHow about players off their feet in the ruck being allowed to hit the SH's arm as he attempts to pass ?

PENAL! PENAL! PENAL! as the Mexican soccer announcers shout.

Flyin Ryan

we see situations where the ball carrier is tackled/grounded and is on the ground with the ball an opponent arrives and grasps the ball by dint of having an arm on either side of him - essentially grabbing hold of the tackled player and pulling the ball up against his body we see penalties against ...

Flyin Ryan

Worryingly for Ireland 10yr bond yield is now at 2.05. It was negative 12 months ago. That's budget pressure hitting directly. When it comes to refi everything from the last 10 years that pressure is only getting higher. We have a serious issue here with not a single party being anything to the rig...

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There is the problem in this that the Republicans under Reagan, Bush and Trump have far, far worse records on the debt front than the Democrats under Clinton and Obama. Neither side is particularly strong on such front, but it's a lazy trope and then some it's more a lefty/Dems issue Clinton and Ob...

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I think it's down to both parties have abandoned common sense when it came to spending. The Democrats for a long time have never viewed debt or the deficit as anything much to worry about, and Trump had no moral compunctions as far as spending, he saw it like Democrats did of handouts that would he...

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The U.S. has employed this strategy twice in the last century. It worked reasonably well in the post war era due to a booming economy, baby boom, and rapidly increased quality of life. This was the only time the policy was legitimate as Congress had little choice but to max out debt to win the war....

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Have 18 months left on my 5 year fixed at 2.65% but am heading to a broker ASAP to fix for a long as I can. Its only going one way from here folks. ECB only talking about two .25% increases by end of summer. We're in a strange place at the moment as it's supply side driven inflation imo. All the ra...

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And that folks is the summary to read, no conspiracy shite, no hyperbole, just facts and obvious results. Now if TSG could recommend anything to buy to protect against eventual penury for the middle classes then I’m in. I was asked that very question by a Dublin businesswoman, who had sold her comp...

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goeagles wrote: ↑Wed Jun 08, 2022 2:32 am So you can probably guess that this is what Gilchrist is telling people:

https://twitter.com/drew_mitchell/statu ... 4297332736

Is it wrong of me to presume this guy's source is Giteau or Giteau's people being Aussie?

Flyin Ryan

Mate, house prices in regional America are jokeshop compared to here. My friend moved there from Sydney. Sold his house here for AU$900,000 and bought a house twice the size for AU$45,000. Come and talk to me when you have cost of living costs we have - I'm particularly loving the "Joe Biden made m...

Flyin Ryan

TBH, you're first comment about debt kind of made you out to sound like a bit of an arsehole I arrived in Oz with $5K - you need to go into debt at some point to get ahead. That's just the way it is. Perfectly understandable. Debt's not evil if it serves a good purpose. It can be however if you let...

Flyin Ryan

TBH, you're first comment about debt kind of made you out to sound like a bit of an arsehole I arrived in Oz with $5K - you need to go into debt at some point to get ahead. That's just the way it is. Perfectly understandable. Debt's not evil if it serves a good purpose. It can be however if you let...

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Bully for you. Impossible to fix more than 5 years in Oz (generally 3 years Max) Wow. Is that by law or just that no lender is willing to do it? 30 year fixed rate mortgages are standard here in the US. It's the "Market" - capitalism at it's finest. :lol: Houses are "Cheap" in America compared to h...

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https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2022/jun/07/major-league-rugby-crisis-la-giltinis-austin-gilgronis-disqualified Real journalism on this, which is in short supply stateside. However, the article states nothing new and midway through quickly goes into "fill up the word count" mode. Side comment, so...

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URC Award Winners List 2021-22 Tackle Machine: Alan O’Connor (Ulster) Turnover King: Jac Morgan (Ospreys) Gilbert Golden Boot: Gareth Anscombe (Ospreys) Top Try Scorer: Leolin Zas (DHL Stormers) Ironman: Ruan Nortje (Vodacom Bulls) Dream Team: Warrick Gelant (DHL Stormers), Seabelo Senatla (DHL Sto...

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I think a lot of big tech stocks might lose some air. Easy money has been buying Apple and Google for years to the point where the ticker price had little to do with progress You can say that about most assets, although it's definitely more exacerbated with companies like Alpha and Google. The NASD...

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Right………. That team went downhill pretty quickly afterward to be fair. And then they played in the 2007 Rugby World Cup where they made an almost completely amateur U.S. team look good and then got destroyed by the Springboks. Then much to the surprise to the England fans let alone the rest of the ...

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Entire england 2003 team really. Managed to hit a non vintage world cup at the same time as them having swung into professionalism better than row. A remarkably average team. Right………. That team went downhill pretty quickly afterward to be fair. And then they played in the 2007 Rugby World Cup wher...

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Apologies if there is already official inflation fred. If price increases are mainly being caused by events which have led to supply constraints rather than the economy running hot, what use is there in raising interest rates? Is central banks raising interest rates then just a mechanism to control...

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